TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boersma,Hans
TI  - Violence, hospitality, and the cross: reappropriating the atonement tradition 
SN  - 9780801027208
AV  - BT265.3 .B64 2004
U1  - 232/.3 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Mich.
PB  - Baker Academic
KW  - Atonement
KW  - Hospitality
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Violence
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-275) and indexes; PART 1. The divine face of hospitality. 1. The possibility of hospitality -- 2. Limited hospitality : election and violence in eternity -- 3. Preferential hospitality : election and violence in history -- PART 2. The cruciform face of hospitality. 4. Atonement, metaphors, and models -- 5. Modeling hospitality : atonement as moral influence -- 6. Atonement and mimetic violence -- 7. Hospitality, punishment, and the atonement -- 8. Atonement, violence, and victory -- PART 3. The public face of hospitality. 9. The church as the community of hospitality -- 10. Public justice and the hospitality of liberation -- Epilogue. The end of violence : eschatology and deification
N2  - "In this study, Hans Boersma proposes an understanding of the atonement that is sensitive to both the Christian tradition and postmodern critiques of that tradition."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -